(reaction to the SCOTUS rejection of a challenge to the D.C. marriage law)

[W]hat the Supreme Court has set up is the greatest civil war between the church and the gay community. And let me just state for the record, we don't want that fight. We love our gay brothers and sisters. But if the Supreme Court is not going to acknowledge the fact that we have a right as religious people to have a say-so in the framework of religious ethics for our culture and society, then we reject the Supreme Court on this issue.

Here on FSTDT, many outrageous fundie statements are collected. But this fundie statement is extraordinarily outrageous.

Marriage as a right protected and given by the STATE has NOTHING to do with religion. This guy just dared in sheer infamy to overrule the democratic process. "OUR religion says so, therefore NOBODY is allowed to marry homosexual people."

You can have whatever religious ethics you want. Hell, you can demand that your entire congregation go to church naked with noodles glued to their faces while riding a unicycle backwards if you want to. What you can't do is force your "religious ethics" on everyone else.

If you want to dictate the lives of those who willingly submit to your religious authority then go right ahead. For those who are, according to your religious framework, not members of your gang then you are simply not allowed to influence their decision making with your house club rules.

I, a civil lay person, performed the ceremony for two irreligious people to get married over the weekend. No religion at all ever got into the ceremony. No word about any holy figures, including yours, holy duties, or religious ethics by any measure.

And yet, they're married now in the eyes of the SUPREME FUCKING COURT.

I'm tired of these idiots and their "christian" agenda, trying to take over our government and demanding "special" rights, so they can stop anyone they don't like from marriage. Don't they realize that just believing in some kind of nonsense doesn't grant you rights other people don't have? Because if that were the case, I'd demand as a trekkie that we seize all capitalist ideas and convert to a resource based atheist society with its ultimate goal being the exploration and colonization of space under peaceful humanitarian ideals.